Adspecs

More than 2 billion people in the world need glasses but don't have them. Not necessarily because of their price, but because they don't have access to the proper equipment and an eye care professional that can provide them with a prescription. It is one of the biggest untreated health problems in the world.
Professor Joshua Silver found a way to remedy this: water-correcting glasses, the Adspecs. The Center for Vision in the Developing World strives to distribute self-adjusting glasses, suitable for people in need of vision correction, worldwide. In clinical trials, 95% of young myopes were able to see clearly after adjusting a pair of these adaptive glasses themselves. Their teacher was able to oversee this process after a two-hour training. The "auto-refraction" approach is scalable and effective. More than 100,000 people in 30 countries now wear these auto-adaptive glasses.